Lecture 3 Flashcards
what is the Effect of Change in Lung Volume on Airway Resistance
- As lung volume increases the alveolar septa will becomes stretched and will apply tension to airway walls
- Will dilate airways and reduce resistance
Where is smooth muscle located in the respiratory tract?
- Trachea- Trachealis m.
- Bronchi and
- bronchioles
- what does the smooth muscle do in the respiratory tract?
- What happens when parasympathetic system is activated?
- sympathetic system?
- Regulates airway diameter
- Parasympathetic system – constrict
- Sympathetic system – dilate
what receptors are part of sympathetic system?
Beta 2
what are some inflammatory mediators that cause constriction to respiratory tract?
•Histamine and leukotrienes
what can dilate the airways?
- Nonadrenergic noncholinergic pathway
- Vagus;
- Nitric oxide
- extrathoracic compression occurs during?
- give examples
- inspiration
- •Nares, pharynx, and larynx narrowing
•Example - Laryngeal hemiplegia – “roaring” - horse; inspiratory stridor – dog
- when are intrathoracic structures compressed
- give an example
- during expiration
- Intrapleural pressure exceeds airway lumen pressure
- Cough – even greater pressure
- Example – tracheal collapse (toy dogs)
what is happening in A
B
C
- a- normal
- b- thickening of alveolar wall leads to low compliance
- c- narrowing, leads to high resistance
- whats happening in A for slow breathing
- rapid
- normal filling during inspiration and release in expiration
- normal filling and release during rapid breathing
- What happens in B during slow breathing and rapid breathing
alveolus B with low lung compliance fills less
What happens in C
- fills more slowly because its airway is partially obstructed
- receive less ventilation and will be unevenly distributed
- Ideally - Ventilation and perfusion of the lung will……
- will there be gas exchange if alveoli are ventilated but not perfused?
- match
- No gas exchange
Causes of uneven distribution (4)
- Regional variations in lung inflation
- Regional variations in airway resistance
- Regional variations in lung compliance
- Collateral ventilation
what is this showing
Intrapleural pressure in dorsal part of chest will be more negative because of gravity
Explain this
(need to get better explination)
- Compliance is different in different parts of the curve. Change in volume with change in pressure. When inspiration occurs, the change in pleural pressure will be the same in all of the regions, but because of the compliance difference, the change in V (volume) will be different in the different areas. The larger the difference between dorsal and ventral chest- the more it will affect their ventilation.
- which animals have complete connective tissue in secondary lobules
- partial
- none
- Pigs and cattle – Complete
- Horse and sheep – Partial
- Dog and cat – None
what is collateral ventilation
•Movement of air between adjacent lobules when a main bronchus obstructed
- which animals have extensive collateral ventilation
- intermediate
- none
- Dog and cat – Extensive
- Horse and sheep - Intermediate
- Pig and cattle - None
- why do cows, sheep and pigs have extensive no collateral ventilation
- what happens if a bronchiole is blocked?
- one bronchiole is connected to one alveoli
- Air Cannot move from alveoli to alveoli
- what animals have septa in lungs
- what do septa contain
- what can they do?
- cow, sheep and pigs
- connective tissue
- Septa allow infection to be walled off and deter spread
- why do dogs, cats and primates have extensive collateral ventilation
- what happens if a bronchiole is blocked
- what happens if they get an infection?
- bronchioles are connected
- If bronchioles are blocked off air can still go to other alveoli
- infection can spread easier because of no septa to wall off